Announcements

An article referring to the anniversary of ten years of FOSSology has been published at the IFOSS Legal Review.It was a joint work of some persons who have contributed to the project over the past years including the founder of the project Robert Gobeille: Kate Stewart, Maximilian Huber, Johannes Najjar, Andreas Wuehrl, Oliver and Fendt and Michael C. Jaeger.

The article was published in the December 2017 issue of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review, “a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues”.

New Features in FOSSology 3.3

This release was tagged rather quickly after the release 3.2 – comparing it to the time between 3.1 and 3.2. It basically contains improvements in the scanning and the handling of acknowledgements. Further it contains important corrections with the delagent. All users of 3.2 should update to the 3.3 release.

More information can be found here: https://github.com/fossology/fossology/releases/tag/3.3.0

Credits

Looking into the git commit history shows you all the users who have contributed to this release since 3.2, the git user names:

After the second release candidate of 3.2, the majority of contributions are therefore in the correction ares (see “fix”) and the cleanup of the files and infrastructure (see “chore”). Some statistics:

What happened since the release candidate for 3.2? The community has merged about 32 pull requests between 3.2 release candidate 1 and this release.

How to Upgrade to 3.2 from 2.5/2.6

Please upgrade from 2.5/2.6 to 3.0 and then try to update to 3.2: Successful migration from 2.5 / 2.6 was one of the topics we have put a lot of care for when looking at 3.0. But from then on, no issue with migrations of previous versions were reported. From a source point of view, we have no doubts that it works.

Unfortunately, the package building infrastructure is moving currently. The works on the release were independent from the moving of the server and thus the release is ready, but the package building server is not. News regarding the new package build infrastructure will be on the mailing list.

Known Issues

As is to be expected, with any release, there are known bugs that users may run into with this release. The ones we know about at this point (and some of the workarounds), are documented here so you don’t need to spend time reporting these bugs again.

An overview about current bugs can be seen at: https://github.com/fossology/fossology/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Abug

As a general issue, the package building infrastructure is not present at the current time. Therefore, installation from the following methods:

I have an older version, how much backwards compatibility do we have?
We have tested the 3.0 version installing on instances of 2.5. We have installed 3.1rcX several times on various older instances of 2.6.2 and 3.0. Migration scripts on the schema are there. Please consider backup in any case.

This release has significant new functional improvements over prior releases.

The workflow has been better integrated with command line interfaces. You’re now able to do uploads and scans from the command line, right from your scripts. In addition, you can run individual license scanning agents from the command line, as well as scheduling activities and integrating them into automated workflows.

Regular expressions have been added to help with searching for export control and customs information for your software

Exporting of the Software Bill of Materials via SPDX 2.0 generation to facilitate communication in the supply chain.